What is the difference between a bridge and a gateway?
A gateway is a direct connection between a trading server and one liquidity venue. A bridge adds routing, aggregation, markup and risk across several providers.
MT5 bridge and liquidity connectivity development
A bridge connects your trading platform to the liquidity you trade against. Finteractive builds bridges around your execution model, with routing, pricing and risk controls you can read and change.
What a bridge does
It receives orders from the trading server, applies your routing and risk rules, sends them to liquidity providers and returns fills and prices to clients.
Bridge or native gateway
Native gateways suit a single liquidity connection with standard flows. A bridge suits several providers, custom routing, markup logic, hybrid execution and unified risk across platforms. The right choice follows from your execution model, and we help you choose.
Routing and execution models
- A-book routing straight to liquidity
- B-book internalisation with exposure limits
- Hybrid models that route by client, instrument or size
- Rules by account group, symbol and time
Aggregation, symbol mapping and markup
Prices from several providers aggregate into one feed. Symbols map between platforms and providers, and markup is applied by group, instrument or session.
Risk, exposure and hedging
Net exposure is visible live, with hooks for automated hedging and limits that protect the book.
Monitoring and reconciliation
Latency, rejects, fill quality and connectivity are monitored continuously, and trades reconcile against provider records every day.
Custom bridge or licensed bridge
A licensed bridge is quick to deploy. A custom bridge fits unusual execution models and keeps logic under your control. Finteractive builds both kinds of integration, including connections to MetaTrader and FIX liquidity.
How we deliver
- 01
Architect call
A thirty-minute conversation with an engineer who has built comparable systems. The goal is a shared picture of the product and its constraints.
- 02
Scope and architecture
The senior team turns the conversation into a scoped plan, an architecture and a delivery path the client can review.
- 03
Build in increments
Working software is shown early and often. The client sees real progress and steers priorities along the way.
- 04
Launch and harden
Release, monitoring and performance tuning, with the same team that built the product on hand.
- 05
Evolve
New markets, instruments, payment rails and features are added by the team that knows the system best.
Questions and answers
How are several liquidity providers connected?
Through aggregation: prices combine into one feed and routing rules decide where each order goes.
How is order routing decided?
By rules on client group, instrument, size and exposure that you configure.
Can a bridge support more than one trading platform?
Yes. Several platforms can share one set of liquidity connections and one risk view.
Guides
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Thirty minutes. You speak with an engineer who has built it before.
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